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Lingering hostility over the Capitol attacks have left lawmakers more bitter than ever.
Shattered glass from the attack on Congress by a pro-Trump mob is seen in doors leading to the Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 12, 2021. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo
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Some House lawmakers are privately refusing to work with each other. Others are afraid to be in the same room. Two members almost got into a fist fight on the floor. And the speaker of the House is warning that “the enemy is within.”
Forget Joe Biden’s calls for unity. Members of Congress couldn t be further divided.
ABC News President James Goldston Stepping Down After Rocky Tenure
28 Jan 2021
ABC News president James Goldston is stepping down following a rocky, seven-year tenure that saw the once-venerable news institution stumble in a series of embarrassing mistakes and internal controversies, including an alleged coverup of a report on the late Jeffrey Epstein.
His exit comes less than a year after ABC News executive Barbara Fedida was placed on leave and eventually fired for allegedly using racist language about black employees.
Goldston said he will leave the network at the end of March, according to an internal memo obtained by multiple news outlets. “I’ve decided this is the right moment to move on as this incredible era of news ends and another begins,” Goldston wrote, saying that his position was “one of the great jobs in all of journalism.”
Biden Creates Commission to Study Supreme Court Reform, Report States
During the election, Joe Biden refused to address whether he would pack the court, insisting that he would not provide such an answer until after he had received a recommendation from a bipartisan commission on changing the Supreme Court. (Photo: Geoff Livingston/Getty Images)
President Joe Biden’s administration is creating a commission to study Supreme Court reform, Politico reported Wednesday.
The new bipartisan commission will be under the purview of the White House Counsel, according to Politico. Multiple members have already been selected, sources familiar with the discussions told Politico, including Yale Law School professor Cristina Rodríguez, former President of the American Constitution Society Caroline Fredrickson, and Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith.
Merrick Garland Wants Former Facebook Lawyer to Top Antitrust Division
Susan Davies has spent much of the last decade working on behalf of major mergers and fending off antitrust enforcement.
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Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland is working behind the scenes to install longtime aide Susan Davies as head of antitrust at the Justice Department.
This piece has been co-published with The Intercept.
As the fight over the direction of the Biden administrationâs antitrust policy intensifies, a new figure has entered the fray, scrambling the calculus: Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland. The battle so far has largely been fought out between lobbyists for Big Tech and their allies on the one hand and skeptics of monopoly power on the other.